Engineering Manager building reliable systems and high-performing teams
I build reliable systems and grow engineering teams. I've done this from Porto to London to Brussels, 7 countries total, usually while figuring out a new language and where to get decent tea. I live in Brussels now with my wife, two small humans, and a dog named after the real hero of Middle-earth.
Led two globally distributed teams (8 engineers) through Harvest's acquisition. Drove a 3-year zero-downtime migration to Vitess, cut $240K/year in infrastructure costs, and maintained 99.95% uptime across all services. Stabilized the Forecast product, reducing churn from ~4% to ~1.5%.
Core contributor to a full infrastructure migration from bare metal to GKE across 5 production apps. Built KEDA-based autoscaling that cut compute costs by 60%, designed HA Redis/Memcached architectures, and co-built the SLO monitoring framework that gave us visibility over 99.95% uptime targets.
Co-organized monthly meetups for the Porto DevOps community, bringing together practitioners to share knowledge on infrastructure, automation, and engineering culture.
Designed infrastructure and led cloud migrations for startups across travel, news, fashion, and supply chain. Key clients included Nezasa, WikiTribune (Jimmy Wales' news platform), and Chic by Choice. Stack: Terraform, Ansible, Packer, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes.
Independent consulting focused on cloud infrastructure, Linux administration, and web development for SMB clients.
Senior technical lead on the Infrastructure Cloud team. Escalation point for OpenStack issues across support tiers. Won Rackspace's "Fanatic" award, recognizing the top 5% of employees for customer impact.
Handled escalations for RHEL-based clustered environments. Mentored junior colleagues and improved internal troubleshooting processes across the EMEA region.
Provided phone and ticket support for SMB customers running RHEL-based LAMP environments, from single servers to load-balanced web clusters and Red Hat Clustered MySQL.
Supported ESA's Grid Processing on Demand platform for Earth observation data. Built a MySQL-based data ingestion pipeline handling ~1 TB/week of satellite data and administered Linux servers, RAID arrays, and monitoring infrastructure.
Led equipment integration and automation for two factory production areas, including SECS/GEM equipment control and chip laser marking. Deployed testing frameworks across sites in Italy, Malaysia, and China.
Implemented SECS/GEM semiconductor equipment control standards. Provided application support to production, quality, and planning departments.
I've lived and worked in multiple countries: Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, United Kingdom, and Croatia.
Exploring how we perceive and interact with AI systems in 2026.
The journey of building a native macOS text-to-speech application with Swift and Claude Code.
Creating a command-line tool to monitor Render deployments and services.
Using AI to find the most engaging NBA games worth watching each week.
Navigating engineering leadership when there's no established process or playbook.
Design and implement resilient, scalable systems on AWS and other cloud platforms.
Implement Ansible, Terraform, and Packer for reproducible, version-controlled deployments.
Migrate on-premise applications to cloud environments with minimal disruption.
Build deployment pipelines, configuration management, and workflow automation.
Native macOS menu bar app for text-to-speech using AVSpeechSynthesizer. Built with Swift and Claude Code.
NBA most engaging game of the week. Find the best games to watch based on competitive metrics.
CLI tool to check the status of deployments and cronjobs in Render. Monitor your Render services from the command line.
Key learnings from my first year leading an SRE team, covering team building, incident management, and balancing reliability with velocity.
A presentation at an internal Harvest event where employees share on topics of personal interest